Deborah Fuhr and Dan Barnes discuss the latest exchange traded funds to be issued, and examine the trends that those new issues reflect.
Exchange traded products
ETF managers could reduce FX hedging risk through this execution model
The growth of the global exchange traded fund business is increasing the complexity of FX hedging for asset managers, in terms of their overall international business and for specific FX-hedged products. Balancing FX overlay programmes with FX swaps, forward and spot trades to hedge risk against the trading of ETF…
Investments in sustainable ETFs have increased urgency
Appetite for environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment is not only increasing but becoming more urgent. This is driven by several factors, which includes retail appetite responding to COVID 19 and environmental concerns, regulations which are cementing benchmarks and transparency, and the longer-term trend of an industry shift to responsible…
Jim Ross tackles some of the ETF industry’s biggest issues
Industry veteran Jim Ross, formerly executive vice president and chairman of the Global SPDR Business at State Street Global Advisors gives his assessment of the exchange traded fund industry today. In a wide ranging discussion that captures active versus passive investing; the development of non-transparent ETFs and the importance of…
July continues to see significant inflows into the ETF market
With exchange-traded funds (ETFs) at a new record of assets under management and net inflows at the third highest on record, the ETF market is having a very good year, with investment in gold being led by concerns around inflation. There is mor egold nwo held by ETFs and ETPS…
Value in ETFs across short and long investment horizons
Interest in the gold market has spiked as a result of COVID-19 however there have been dislocations between spot and derivative instruments as physical delivery became challenging. This has driven up interest in gold exchange traded products (ETPs); flows have also increased in environmental, social and governance (ESG) based exchange…
Anna Paglia: Insights from a 20-year career and today’s priorities
Through her 20 year career, Anna Paglia, global head of ETFs & indexed strategies at Invesco tells us how the exchange-traded fund business has grown from its entrepreneurial roots, on the forefront of innovation, to its trillion-dollar business today. She explains her career path, her top three priorities over the…
Investors’ confidence in fixed income ETFs is significant
Investor confidence in fixed income exchange-trade funds (ETFs) has been boosted by resilience to volatility, the US government’s buying of ETFs and the engagement of authorised participants (APs) to support the creation and redemption of ETFs through choppy markets. Eric Pollackov, global head of ETF capital markets at Invesco outlines…
Hong Kong Stock Exchange has enhanced market making in ETPs to boost liquidity
Last year the Hong Kong Stock Exchange HKEX celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Tracker Fund of Hong Kong (TraHK) its first listing of and ETF; it has grown as a hub for dealing in exchange-traded products (ETPs) within Asia Pacific time-zones, mostly as an institutional market. Individual investors are increasingly using exchange-traded funds, with…